I am a doctor, who over the past 20 years has practiced clinical psychology in Georgetown, as well as serving as a professor, author (represented by Dupree/Miller), & commentator on CNN, the BBC & NBC News. Also, as a graduate of Georgetown Law, I comment, teach, lecture & expert witness on issues that bear on both psychology & law.

Head of State focuses on the psychology of politics, politicians, & the media that surrounds them.

Nationalism, Totalitarianism, & Fascism have been built precisely upon this impulse.

Those seeking grandiose confirmation have attached themselves to this impulse as prospective “leaders”–their “leadership” consisting primarily of the capability to whip up the release of this impulse of hatred in those most vulnerable to it: Those most suspicious of intellect & thought, the voters that, in a telling slip, Trump noted that he “most loves.”

Racism, anti-Semitism, misogyny all are used to whip up the impulse to abandon thought to gleeful hatred.

Trump knows this, & with the remorselessness of sociopathy & nihilism, has used it–for self-stimulation, for effect, for amusement, & to attempt to grasp at a greater form of personal grandiosity. We know how this ends.

That is the reason for his run. The only reason. The U.S. does not exist for his next grasp at vainglorious praise.

Republican, Democratic--these are meaningless here. This is a condition, not a candidate, Stimulated by conflict, lacking remorse, irresistibly baited--these, as we have seen, will only become worse.